2021 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

Nonnadiluca

Love the jumpsuit! Your mum is brilliant, would she like to adopt me??

CAFCGirl

Thats a sweet thing to say.
I'll be sure to ask LOL

Liverpool_Anne

@CAFGirl, love the sunflower buttons,

PollyWollyDoodle

Wow that jumpsuit is fabulous!  What a lovely thing for your mum to do for you. 

CAFCGirl

Liverpool_Anne said:

@CAFGirl, love the sunflower buttons,

I think they may be my favourite part.

wit40iwtwan

I have a spend to declare... 2 bra's... so 3 coupons

TwibbleDee

Started reading Ruth Goodman’s The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything.

Never occurred to me before how much the fuel available alters the landscape, the cooking style, and the history of an area.  It’s a fascinating read so far. 

Laura_Elsewhere

TwibbleDee said:

Started reading Ruth Goodman’s The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything.

Never occurred to me before how much the fuel available alters the landscape, the cooking style, and the history of an area.  It’s a fascinating read so far. 

She's good... but also the increase in demand for coal, once it became THE fuel, changed landscapes, so it goes round in a circle- and living in coal-mining, coal-burning landscapes caused the work of housewives to change, and it all goes round and round, feeding further into the circle...! 

Cherryfudge

Well, I haven't spent any coupons recently, but you all seem to be spending as though it's going out of fashion! That set me to wondering how people felt and acted when rationing drew to a close. Did they feel the need to spend those coupons just because coupons had been so precious for so long, or did they throw them in the air and rush out in search of a shopping bag full of nylons? I had a google but I couldn't find anything.

Something just caught my sense of humour so I thought I'd pass it on. I'm repairing an embroidered cushion made by my Grandma: the seams need attention but the embroidery was mostly okay apart from the magenta thread which has disintegrated. I've found a near-perfect match and am learning grandma's stitch style. My Mum wasn't keen as her embroidery was neat and precise whereas Grandma's was thick and casual... what puzzled me though was why Grandma would use four strands of embroidery thread instead of one, two or three. It was only just now, drawing off thread to refill the needle, that it occurred to me that she has used two strands, doubled. Why could I not see that before?! The maths then makes sense: 3 x 2 = 6 strands to a hank of thread, so there wasn't all the waste I wondered about.

Does anyone else ever find themselves blind to what's in front of them?!  

I'll try to post a picture to let you see the WIP: mine is the lonely magenta daisy, Grandma-style as I was able to use the original thread marks for guidance.

Cherryfudge

Here we go: overview and close-up.